The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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For, though the Zaddik, who gave his life to helping his neighbor's or his enemy's ass lying under its burden, as enjoined in Exodus xxiii.

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Christ rode on an ass, now the ass rides on Christ."

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Campbell, Ida E, invites ass'n.

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II An author's such an ass, alas!

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I'm not the blithering, balmy, moon-eyed, melancholy ass you think me----" Her quick laughter rang clear, and his echoed it, rather uncertainly.

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I told you that I'm going to take you as you are and enjoy you and our friends--and quit making an ass of myself----" "Dear, you never did!"

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And maybe I'm a predestined ass.

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But every ass has a pair of heels and I'm going to flourish mine very gaily from now on!"

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An ass, with a mitre on its head, and dragging a Bible at its tail, formed a characteristic portion of the ceremony; the Bible was finally burnt, and its ashes scattered to the winds.

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"They went on a little further, when a laden ass, whose owner had fled, stood directly in their way.

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After all this, our readers will be little surprised to find that a Mr Gordon, from the rich and partially civilized state of New York, whose commercial relations with us are of such magnitude and importance, makes an ass of himself with the best of them.

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"You don't mean to say," said Cutts, with singularly elaborate articulation--"You don't mean to say that you were such an inconceivable ass as to pay up your letter of allotment?

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"He's an ass!" exclaimed the baited Rector.

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"Just so--exactly what I imagined; but being an ass, you know, doesn't account for him coming here so often.

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Ass'n._, Feb. 22, 1908.

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"Funny ass!" he said at last, and then they scragged him again for being cheeky.

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You blubbed the last time and made me feel an awful ass!" he persisted.

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"Shut up, Ninian, you ass!" said Henry, turning away.

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That ass, Ninian'll be sure to laugh if I tell him!"

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"Sloppy ass!" said Ninian, and then he added excitedly, "Oh, I say, plaice and dabs and a lobster ... a whopping big lobster!

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"You're supposed to have an awful lot of tact if you're an ambassador, and I'm rather an ass at tact!"

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Ninian did not like to ask his uncle George to "chuck it," nor did he care to tell him that he was making a frightful ass of himself, and so he did not answer, and the beaming old gentleman felt that he had impressed the lad....

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Ninian's chief horror was of "making an ass" of himself.

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Only, don't talk like a soppy ass again, will you?

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_My dear old ass,_ Gilbert wrote, _why grizzle and grouse at the Bally Awful!

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Ninian had called him a sloppy ass!...

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"Good Lord!" he said aloud, "what an ass I am!"

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Please thank her for me, and give my love to Mary and Gilbert, and tell him not to be an old ass, yapping like that in church.

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"Funny ass!" said Ninian.

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Still making an ass of itself?"

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He's that kind of ass!

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Unless the man's a sentimental ass.

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He could hear Ninian, half laughing, half growling, as he shouted, "Don't be an old ass, Mary!"

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Roger asked me not to be an ass when I told him of it.

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Damned ass, that chap!_ _Alexander sent my comedy back.

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"Ridiculous ass!" said Gilbert.

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"Don't be an old ass," said Ninian.

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The fellow who dithers about it as if he'd invented a new philosophy on the day he first slept with a woman, is a dirty, neurotic ass.

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I never saw a chap look such an ass!"

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I don't believe I shall ever do another book...." "Silly ass!"

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"Don't be an old ass!"

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Why even that dull ass, Richardson, makes you understand more about his period than Lecky does!"

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"Yes," Ninian answered, "he said I wasn't such an ass as he'd thought I was.

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"My God," he said, "what an ass I was to do that!"

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Quinny, you're an ass!

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"I've never felt such a helpless ass in my life before," Gilbert went on when she had shut the door behind her.

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You see, she wouldn't want you for very long, and my general opinion is that you can't keep on giving if you get nothing in return ... unless, of course, you're a one-eyed ass.

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"Some damned ass," he said, "had ordered the soldiers out, and ... well, there was a row.

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"Don't be an old ass, Henry.

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If a man is such an ass as all that, he ought to be put out of the world quick.

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"Don't be an ass!" they had shouted back at him.

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Silly ass not to ask for a commission!" said Jimphy.

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"Don't be an ass, Quinny!"

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I've not told any one else about this, because I'm afraid of being called a sloppy ass ... and perhaps it is sloppy ... but you'll understand what I feel, so I don't mind telling you.

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"I don't believe it at all," Henry answered, "and I think that any one who does believe it is a malicious-minded ass!"

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"I _was_ an ass not to keep the shutters closed," he said aloud.

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I thought to myself, 'I won't make a bloomin' ass of myself this time!'

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This rage, be it remembered, was one of disappointed pride; and the disappointment dated essentially from the time, when but five days before, the King of Zion came, and was received with hosannahs, riding upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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In the shadow behind the cross, a man, riding on an ass colt, looks back to the multitude, while he points with a rod to the Christ crucified.

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Whether the ostrich is actually such an ass as to hide his head with a notion of concealing himself I don't quite know, but there is certainly a deal of ass in the camel-goose.

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Pontius Pilate is, I fear, an ass; also a snob.

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But I have observed you closely, and though, like Dogberry, you may have everything fine about you, I am impelled sorrowfully to write you down an ass.

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And they bore the bowl with them into the land of Egypt; four wives and an ass carried the bowl in their turns--the four women for a space, and the ass for a space--until they came to the land of Egypt; and the clock was set up in the land of Egypt.

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_What really was it that Jesus saw in the lowly to attract him?_ Sixth Day: Jesus, a Man of the People And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and came unto Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village that is over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

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Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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In his opinion, the steed was no adequate compensation for his mule; so to make matters even, and adjust the affair amicably, he proposed that I should give up my horse into the bargain, and then take this abominable ass as a present."

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We would not venture to determine whether the refinement of their palate stood in the way of their appetite, but it is nevertheless a fact that both master and man left the reverend father's mule and the _mesonero's_ ass undisturbed possessors of the repast.

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Even an ass knows that thistles are good to eat, and that certain movements of his tongue and larynx will result in a bray; while man not only daily discovers fresh uses for things, but imagines that if he had had the fashioning of them, he might have materially increased their utility; King Alfonso of Castile, for instance, boasting of the valuable cosmogonical advice he could have given had he been taken into council; and one of Kaiser Wilhelm's predecessors on the throne of Prussia intimating that he, in like case, would have proved conclusively that pounded quartz and silex may easily be in excess in arable soil.

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What an ass he was anyway!

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And there stood an ass, waiting for him, on which he mounted.

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In the first days of the Tang dynasty an ancient with a white beard and a bamboo drum on his back, was seen riding backward on a black ass in the town of Tschang An.

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"He's an ass in lots of ways," Miles allowed, "but he is an excellent judge of character."

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"I had my own doubts about it without any help from Pen ... but she said Alec Pottinger had been talking...." "Pottinger's an ass."

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"You _are_ an ass," Peter said wearily.

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The "patriarch's" wife was significantly reckoned in the same category with a man's "ox" and his "ass," which any other male was forbidden "to covet."

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For instance, if I were to say, 'You are an _ass_,' it rests on ass, but if I were to say, '_You_ are an ass,' it rests on you, Sir James."

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_Except, you know, you are so d--d offensive._" A judge and a facetious lawyer conversing on the subject of the transmigration of souls, the judge said, "If you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which of them would you prefer to be?"

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--"Because," replied the lawyer, "I have heard of an ass being a judge, but of a horse, never."

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"My friend," said an irritable lawyer, "you are an ass."

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--"Do you mean, sir," asked the witness, "that I am your friend because I am an ass, or an ass because I am your friend?"

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At last: "You're an ass, sir!" shrieked one.

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)_ FEATHERS OF RARE BIRDS _Sovereignty._ FROG _Renewed birth._ HAWK _Power._ IBIS _Usefulness; the heart._ LIZARD _Divine wisdom._ LOTUS _The Sun; creation; resurrection._ NILE KEY _Life._ PALM TREE _Immortality; longevity._ PAPYRUS _Food for mind and body._ PINE CONE _Fire._ POMEGRANATE _Life._ ROSETTE _A lotus motive._ SAIL OF A VESSEL _Breath; the belief that the soul is inactive and worthless until revived by the breath of the mind._ SCARABÆUS _Immortality; resurrection; a ruling providence._ SOLAR DISK WITH SERPENTS _Royalty._ SPHINX _Beneficent Being._ STAFF IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS _Purity._ SUN _Deity; life._ VIPER _Power._ WHEEL _Deity._ ZIGZAG _Water._ INDIAN SYMBOLS ASS _Humility; austerity._ BANIAN OR BURR TREE _Deity (because of its outstretched branches and overshadowing beneficence)._ BUTTERFLY _Beneficence of Summer._ FYLFOT CROSS OF BUDDHISM _Auspiciousness._ KNOT AND FLOWER DESIGN _Divine bounty and power._ SERPENT _Desire._ JAPANESE SYMBOLS PINE TREES _Long life._ STORKS _Long life._ TORTOISES _Long life._ PERSIAN SYMBOLS DESCENDING EAGLE _Bad luck._ EAGLE _Light; height._ FLYING EAGLE _Good luck._ HOUNDS _Fame; ever increasing honor._ LEOPARDS _Fame; ever increasing honor._ LION _Power; victory._ PEACOCK _Fire; light._ PHOENIX _Immortality._ STANDING EAGLE _Good luck._ SUN _Light._ SWORD _Force._ TREE OF HEALTH _Immortality._ TREE OF LIFE _Knowledge; truth._ The Coat of Arms of Persia is the Lion holding a sword in his paw, and with the Sun at his back.

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Ass, symbolism of, 159.

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Mark, the illustrious, was an ass."

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I could make a very decent sort of ass of myself, but not a poet."

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"Get back, you ass!" he said through white lips in response to inquiries how he felt.

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Gen'l J. D. Cox, commanding division, makes the following report to A. V. Colburn, Ass't Adjutant General: "The firing upon General Pleasanton's command was from, possibly, three pieces of light artillery.

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_He._ "BY THE BYE, TALKING OF OLD TIMES, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT OCCASION WHEN I MADE SUCH AN AWFUL ASS OF MYSELF?"

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"How great an ass he had made of himself?"

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"That's exactly the inevitable ass."

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Simon, you ass, do you mean to tell me--" Simon shrugged his shoulders and showed his teeth.

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When a prig got too many prizes there was an eloquent silence in the hall, till at last a loud, accurate and suggestive "Ma-a-a-a!" from Speug relieved the feelings of the delighted school, and the unpopular prize-winner left the platform amid the chorus of the farmyard--cows, sheep, horses, dogs, cats and a triumphant ass all uniting to do him honour.

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"What an ass I was!" said Carnaby, summing up the situation in the only language in which he could express himself.

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She believed, perhaps, that I belonged to the sect of sacred animals which had already furnished the she-ass of Balaam, and took me away with her.

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